[akash_morar]

Started working on designing an F1 front wing on Solidworks last year but now have to do it using Ansys 12.1's design modeler. I cant import the solidworks geometry in due to install errors.

Basically how can i make a 3D wing. Is there a way to extrude a curve or import in a curve file and then convert it into a sketch like i can do in Solidworks?

Any help would be good as well as if there are better ways to making a wing using the modeler.

Thanks

[sac]

Originally Posted by akash_morar

Started working on designing an F1 front wing on Solidworks last year but now have to do it using Ansys 12.1's design modeler. I cant import the solidworks geometry in due to install errors.

Then why not reinstall it - it would probably be the easiest way since you have already made the geometry. What error message as you getting? Do you have solidworks installed on the machine?

Basically how can i make a 3D wing. Is there a way to extrude a curve or import in a curve file and then convert it into a sketch like i can do in Solidworks?

There are lots of ways you can do this.

Importing a points file can be done under the point feature.

Or you could create points using jscript from a file. An easy way of doing the latter is to create a few points and then in the file menu ask it to "write out script of active plane" (or something similar can't exactly remember the wording).

[rohit_8481]

@Akash

I'm doing a similar project... I seem to be having the same problem where i can't seem to extrude a 3D curve...
But i did import the curve into ansys... vut cant seem to do anythin with it... U basically import the data points into ansys in a specific format.. X, Y and Z triples basically...

[oewnce932c]

hi all, i know the topic is not that new
but i wrote a tutorial -ANSYS DesignModeler: import XYZ points from file, make splines, surfaces and body. + Meshing
cheers